Author Archives: Tracy Kolenchuk

      It’s time to put CURE back in medicine. Cure, the word cure has disappeared from modern medicine. Cure is not medically defined for most diseases, so most diseases cannot be cured, by lack of definition. It’s time … Continue reading →

In the summer of 2016, I encountered a used copy of Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary, Third Edition, 2008, and looked up the word “cure”.  Cure was not in the medical dictionary.  Neither was “incurable”. I soon found many other medical … Continue reading →

Has modern medicine been searching for Zeno’s cancer cure?

There’s a lot of talk, and lots of nonsense about the high costs of medical care (often called ‘health care’). There is a fundamentally simple problem: our current medical systems have many incentives to not cure. If we want to … Continue reading →

Maybe you’ve heard a few lightbulb jokes. Maybe you’ve even told a few as well. Maybe you’ve even made up a lightbulb joke? Most lightbulb jokes are fun, with little use beyond humour. Sometimes, a lightbulb joke illustrates an obvious … Continue reading →